Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens Book Discussion

Dickens All the Year Round

Read one or read them all!

Join Michael Bevel, sensational facilitator of Bethesda Library's long-running Victorian Literature reading group, in reading and discussing

"The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" by  Charles Dickens

and consider Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens's American novel, on the institution of slavery:

Thus the stars wink upon the bloody stripes; and Liberty pulls down her cap upon her eyes, and owns oppression in its vilest aspect for her sister.

NOTE: WE ARE MEETING AT 6:30 PM - EARLY THIS MONTH!

The Dickens 1812-2012 Book Club is brought to you by the Friends of  Library, Bethesda Chapter, on the third Tuesday of the months in 2012. 

To request ADA program accommodation, contact:

The Bethesda Library,7400 Arlington Road,

Bethesda MD 20814 240-777-0970; TTY 301-657-0840

five working days in advance.

Note:

The period illustration of former slave, Cicero, and Martin: 

"You're the pleasantest fellow I have seen yet," said Martin, clapping him on the back...

is by Fred Barnard for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapter XVI), page 137, and was scanned by Philip V. Allingham.